From Microlevel Decisions to Landscape Changes: An Assessment of Agricultural Conservation Policies.

dc.contributor.author Wu, JunJie
dc.contributor.author Adams, Richard
dc.contributor.author Kling, Catherine
dc.contributor.author Tanaka, Katsuy
dc.contributor.department Economics
dc.date 2018-02-18T08:29:21.000
dc.date.accessioned 2020-06-30T02:08:01Z
dc.date.available 2020-06-30T02:08:01Z
dc.date.issued 2004-01-31
dc.description.abstract <p>The growth in conservation programs has created a need for modeling frameworks capable of measuring microlevel behavioral responses and macrolevel landscape changes. This paper presents an empirical model that predicts farmers' production practices and the resulting levels of agricultural runoffs at more than 42,000 agricultural sites in the upper-Mississippi river basin under alternative conservation policies. Results suggest that payments for conservation tillage and crop rotations increase the use of these conservation practices. However, the acreage response is inelastic and the programs are not likely to be cost effective on their own for addressing hypoxia problem in the Gulf of Mexico.</p>
dc.description.comments <p>This is a working paper of an article from <em>American Journal of Agricultural Economics</em>, 2004, 86(1); 26-41. DOI: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0092-5853.2004.00560.x" target="_blank">10.1111/j.0092-5853.2004.00560.x.</a> </p>
dc.identifier archive/lib.dr.iastate.edu/econ_las_pubs/552/
dc.identifier.articleid 1551
dc.identifier.contextkey 9974690
dc.identifier.s3bucket isulib-bepress-aws-west
dc.identifier.submissionpath econ_las_pubs/552
dc.identifier.uri https://dr.lib.iastate.edu/handle/20.500.12876/21780
dc.source.uri http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1352&context=card_workingpapers
dc.subject.disciplines Agricultural and Resource Economics
dc.subject.disciplines Environmental Studies
dc.subject.disciplines Growth and Development
dc.subject.disciplines Health Economics
dc.subject.disciplines Other Economics
dc.subject.keywords conservation practices
dc.subject.keywords green payments
dc.subject.keywords land-use changes
dc.subject.keywords nitrate runoff and leaching
dc.subject.keywords non-point pollution
dc.subject.keywords soil erosion
dc.title From Microlevel Decisions to Landscape Changes: An Assessment of Agricultural Conservation Policies.
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